
Pennsylvania Letters to the Editor: Harvest does first before bucks
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 14, 2025, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
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Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the March 14, 2025, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.

I read with interest Ben Moyer’s recent column about tags being transferred (or “sacrificed,” as he worded it) to a mentored youngster. I wholeheartedly agree that we need to be recruiting more hunters to the

I retired Sept. 30, 2024, after 34-plus years of federal service. In my last position, I led the Great Lakes Fishery Commission Sea Lamprey Technical Assistance Program at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Upper Midwest Environmental

Two weeks ago, the Trump administration announced it would lay off 1,000 National Park Service employees. A week later, after some backlash, we were hearing that some of those positions would be re-hired, and that

At the recent House Game and Fisheries Committee hearing on returning the opening day of deer season to Monday in Pennsylvania, there was an interesting exchange between Rep. Jim Haddock and Steve Smith, Game Commission

Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 28, 2025, edition of Pennsylvania Outdoor News.

Never has there been a more unfortunate endangered species than the hellbender. Actually, the hellbender is a candidate Endangered species, not yet officially listed as Endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal

Years ago, as chronic wasting disease was starting to spread across south-central Pennsylvania and northward, I asked a biologist friend if he thought the disease would ever turn up where I live in Luzerne County.<br

You can’t call it a controversy, and certainly not a conflict. But you could fairly consider it debate, in the best sense of the word, defined by Webster’s, as a noun: “a regulated discussion of
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